Re: ppppp but no fffff

From:

Graham Percival

Subject:

Re: ppppp but no fffff

Date:

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 02:38:48 -0700

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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)

On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 10:31:35AM -0700, Mark Polesky wrote:
>
> Although, it just struck me, what does MIDI do when it gets a
> dynamic it doesn't recognize? Maybe it's written somewhere; I
> haven't checked.
MIDI doesn't get "dynamics" in terms of mffpf. Rather, note
events have a include "velocity" number from 0-127.
Interestingly, both noteOn and noteOff events have this velocity
figure, although very few programs/hardware do anything with the
velocity of a noteOff message.
(and actually, many programs just use noteOn with a velocity of 0
instead of an actual noteOff message!)
Cheers,
- Graham